Laravel Practice A Laravel application for learning and practicing Laravel framework features and best practices. 📋 Table of Contents

About Features Requirements Installation Configuration Usage Project Structure Testing Contributing License

🎯 About This project serves as a practical learning environment for exploring Laravel's capabilities, including routing, controllers, models, migrations, authentication, and more. It's designed to help developers understand Laravel concepts through hands-on implementation. ✨ Features

Authentication & Authorization: User registration, login, and role-based access control CRUD Operations: Complete Create, Read, Update, Delete functionality Database Management: Migrations, seeders, and Eloquent ORM API Development: RESTful API endpoints Form Validation: Request validation and error handling File Uploads: Image and document upload functionality Email Integration: Notification and email sending Task Scheduling: Automated task execution Queue Management: Asynchronous job processing

🔧 Requirements

PHP >= 8.1 Composer MySQL >= 5.7 or PostgreSQL >= 10 Node.js >= 16.x NPM or Yarn

📦 Installation

Clone the repository

bash git clone https://github.com/cedkiller/laravelPractice.git cd laravelPractice

Install PHP dependencies

bash composer install

Install JavaScript dependencies

bash npm install

Create environment file

bash cp .env.example .env

Generate application key

bash php artisan key:generate

Configure your database Edit the .env file and set your database credentials:

env DB_CONNECTION=mysql DB_HOST=127.0.0.1 DB_PORT=3306 DB_DATABASE=your_database_name DB_USERNAME=your_database_user DB_PASSWORD=your_database_password

Run database migrations

bash php artisan migrate

Seed the database (optional)

bash php artisan db:seed

Build assets

bash npm run dev

Start the development server

bash php artisan serve The application will be available at http://localhost:8000 ⚙️ Configuration Mail Configuration Update your .env file with mail credentials: envMAIL_MAILER=smtp MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io MAIL_PORT=2525 MAIL_USERNAME=your_username MAIL_PASSWORD=your_password MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls Queue Configuration For queue processing, update your .env: envQUEUE_CONNECTION=database Run the queue worker: bashphp artisan queue:work Storage Link Create a symbolic link for storage: bashphp artisan storage:link 🚀 Usage Running the Application Development: bashphp artisan serve With Vite (for hot reload): bashnpm run dev Common Artisan Commands bash# Clear application cache php artisan cache:clear

Clear config cache

php artisan config:clear

Clear route cache

php artisan route:clear

List all routes

php artisan route:list

Create a new controller

php artisan make:controller YourController

Create a new model with migration

php artisan make:model YourModel -m

Run migrations

php artisan migrate

Rollback migrations

php artisan migrate:rollback 📁 Project Structure laravelPractice/ ├── app/ │ ├── Console/ │ ├── Exceptions/ │ ├── Http/ │ │ ├── Controllers/ │ │ ├── Middleware/ │ │ └── Requests/ │ ├── Models/ │ └── Providers/ ├── bootstrap/ ├── config/ ├── database/ │ ├── factories/ │ ├── migrations/ │ └── seeders/ ├── public/ ├── resources/ │ ├── css/ │ ├── js/ │ └── views/ ├── routes/ │ ├── api.php │ ├── channels.php │ ├── console.php │ └── web.php ├── storage/ ├── tests/ │ ├── Feature/ │ └── Unit/ ├── .env.example ├── artisan ├── composer.json ├── package.json └── README.md 🧪 Testing Run the test suite: bash# Run all tests php artisan test

Run specific test file

php artisan test tests/Feature/ExampleTest.php

Run tests with coverage

php artisan test --coverage 🤝 Contributing Contributions are welcome! Please follow these steps:

Fork the repository Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature) Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature') Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature) Open a Pull Request

📝 License This project is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license. 📧 Contact Your Name - @cedkiller Project Link: https://github.com/cedkiller/laravelPractice 🙏 Acknowledgments

Laravel Documentation Laravel Bootcamp Laracasts Laravel Community